Icarus Was a Trans Boy is a searing, luminous collection about falling, surviving, and choosing to rise again. In these poems, mythology meets memory, and the ancient story of Icarus is reclaimed, not as a cautionary tale, but as a trans boy’s anthem. Through heatwaves and hospital rooms, rooftop kisses and church pews, these poems navigate the fire of self-discovery and the oceanic depth of becoming. They speak to the sharp ache of compression, the sting of salt, the rage of being silenced, and the quiet miracle of breath after freefall. This is not a book about ruin. It’s about what comes after. About building wings from binder seams, growing gills in saltwater, and flying anyway. For every kid told they couldn’t. For every boy who had to build himself from the wreckage.